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01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

with both a coated and an uncoated product.” How Much You Asking for that Pile-Driver Pad? Case: Cumberland Metal Industries: Engineered Products Division — 1980 Written: 1980 Copies Sold: 197,677 Cumberland, a disguised company, has... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Nov 2020
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

intelligence of students and faculty. The centers assist faculty with research and case writing, strengthen relationships with local alumni and practitioners, facilitate faculty and student immersions abroad, and host MBA admissions and career View Details

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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami - Blog - Business & Environment

Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable View Details

December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
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Bulb 2017: Launch

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

On August 21, 2015, Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood, co-founders of Bulb Ltd. (Bulb) launched a new business to supply energy to the United Kingdom’s 27 million residential homes with a promise of 100% renewable electricity at affordable prices. By the end of March 2017,... View Details

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January 2004
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Cross-country Technological Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts

By: Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn

We examine the diffusion of more than twenty technologies across twenty-three of the world's leading industrial economies. Our evidence covers major technology classes such as textile production, steel manufacture, communications, information technology,... View Details

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Development Economics; Human Capital; Government and Politics; Trade; Production; Information Technology; Steel Industry; Communications Industry

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24 Apr 2014
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Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones

people worldwide who suffer from this often-fatal disease. With a goal of reversing “diabesity”—the twin epidemic of diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world—Jana Care is building biosensors and software apps that can... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet

cash and in-kind services. They are KNUMI, which is developing technology to enable "media content providers to create a highly interactive experience for end-users"; Sound MicroSystems, which is commercializing technology for the View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix

eggs have a short shelf life. Norway’s salmon farms meet some 40 percent of global demand for the species, for instance, but can harvest eggs only during the few months of spawning season. How do you boost production the rest of the year?... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; aquaculture; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

01 Oct 1997
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Honorable Mention

Association's task force on admissions, were recognized for their efforts to help develop a long-term strategy to boost admission of women to the MBA Program. David Hughes, section president, student senator, and HBS Show View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan

in losses suffered mostly by poor farmers in developing countries. They have made a huge sacrifice. However, culling as a protective measure occurs unevenly across countries. Does a market-based system adequately respond to the need for... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

04 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CVS Health

Corporate Intern Program. We hire interns across a diversity of business areas working on market-shaping strategies in areas which include Digital Innovations, Merchandising, Marketing, Analytics, Product Development, and Government... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

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T. J. Dermot Dunphy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

weren’t sure how to market it. Dermot took over the company and in the process essentially invented the packaging industry for enclosing and protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. He also created a first-rate R&D... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Global Mission

topic: the global manager. Our lead story recounts how HBS developed a unique research and teaching approach to address the rise of globalization. Since the mid-1990s, the School has established a network of seven far-flung research... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group of patients. The rule doesn’t apply... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

04 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 4

fundamentally new product line. In 2005, Tennant Company had developed an innovative, environmentally friendly cleaning technology that could potentially revolutionize cleaning. Historically, Tennant was a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2012
News

Ideas in Action

shoppers deliberating over a luxury goods purchase. “Marketers can convince consumers that buying their product is actually a farsighted behavior,” she observes. “In that sense, consumers are investing in future memories.” —JH Tsedal... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jan 2005
News

Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

Changes in employee management and training had an enormous impact. It took 22,000 workers to produce 1 million vehicles in 2000, for example, but only half that number to make 1.8 million four years later. In addition, Bajaj Auto has consistently invested in R&D. The... View Details

14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2007
News

The Plight of the Global Poor

day or less. The number of people living in poverty at the bottom of the wealth pyramid, versus the relative handful at the pyramid’s peak, represents what is potentially the most explosive socioeconomic challenge facing the world. Now, with markets in the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2010
News

Faculty Research Online

consumers prefer single songs over music “bundles.” The result? It is time for the industry to rethink its products and prices, writes Associate Professor Anita Elberse. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6312.html. India Transformed? Insights... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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